Programme Notes
More information on films screened at HippFest.
2024 programme notes
- Adventures of Half a Ruble (1929) by Natalia Guzevataya (HippFest 2024)
- Just Around the Corner (1921) by Anke Brouwers (HippFest 2024)
- Oliver Twist (1922) by David Cairns (HippFest 2024)
- Peggy (1916) by John Ritchie (HippFest 2024)
- Mantrap (1926) by Jay Weissberg (HippFest 2024)
- Queen of Sports (1934) by Dr. Yuqing Liu (Hippfest 2024)
- Stella Maris (1918) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2024)
- The Flying Scotsman (1929) by Marc David Jacobs (HippFest 2024)
- The Norrtull Gang (1923) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2024)
- The Organist at St Vitus Cathedral (1929) by Ilia Ryzhenko (HippFest 2024)
- The Rugged Island - A Shetland Lyric (1933) by Dr Shona Main (HippFest 2024)
- The Wind (1928) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2024)
Archive
A-E
-
A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927) by David Cairns (HippFest 2021)
-
Annie Laurie (1927) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2015)
-
Baby Peggy The Elephant in the Room (1924) by Allan Hunter (HippFest 2013)
-
Body and Soul (1925) by Professor Charles Musser (HippFest 2021)
-
By the Law (Po Zakonu) (1926) by Professor Dina Iordanova (HippFest 2017)
-
Call of the North (2017) by Yasmin Al-Hadithi of Highlight Art (HippFest 2018)
-
Chess Fever (1925) by David Cairns (HippFest 2021)
-
Chicago (1927) by Georgina Coburn (HippFest 2017)
-
Children of No Importance (Die Unehelichen) (1926) by Rolf Aurich (HippFest 2015)
-
City Girl (1930) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2022)
-
Crossways (Jujiro) (1928) by Jasper Sharp (HippFest 2013)
-
Dawn (1928) by Lawrence Napper (HippFest 2022)
-
Daybreak (1933) by Dr Xuelei Huang (HippFest 2016)
-
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen No Onna) (1933) by Chris Fujiwara (HippFest 2014)
-
Drifters (1929) by Karl Magee (HippFest 2014)
-
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest at Home 2020)
-
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - The Film Explainer Presents by Trevor Griffiths (HippFest 2015)
-
Earth (1930) by David Cairns (HippFest 2016)
-
Exit Smiling (1926) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2016)
F-M
- Faces of Children (Visages d'Enfants) (1925) by David Cairns (HippFest 2014)
- FILIBUS: The Mysterious Air Pirate (1915) courtesy of Milestone (HippFest 2020 and HippFest at Home on Fair Saturday 2020)
- Forbidden Paradise (1924) by David Cairns (HippFest 2019)
- Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) by Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz (HippFest 2021 & 2019)
- Hell's Hinges (1916) by Edward Buscombe (HippFest 2015)
- Hindle Wakes (1927) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2019)
- His Majesty the Barber (1928) - by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2023)
- Hollywood Cinema and American Modernity in the Jazz Age by Dr Michael Hammond (HippFest 2019)
- Hound of the Baskervilles (Der Hund von Baskerville) (1929) by Russell Merritt (HippFest 2019)
- Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Award-winners programme (HippFest 2022)
- In Spring (1929) - by Stanislav Menzelevskyi (HippFest 2023)
- Journey to the Isles: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser by Topher Dawson (HippFest 2022)
- Laila (1929) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2019)
- L'Homme du Large (1920) by David Cairns (HippFest 2022)
- Lucky Star (1929) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2014)
- Mania (1918) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2016)
- Master of the House (1925) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2023)
- Moulin Rouge (1928) by Margaret Deriaz (HippFest 2019)
N-S
- New Found Sound 2021 by Colin Broom & John Somerville (HippFest 2021)
- Not for Sale (1924) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2022)
- Piccadilly (1929) by Anna Chen (HippFest 2015)
- Prix de Beaute (1930) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2021)
- Rien Que Les Heures (1929) by Karl Magee (HippFest 2014)
- Rob Roy (1922) by David Bruce (HippFest 2019) and touring
- Rowdy Ann (1919) by Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak (HippFest 2022)
- Salt for Svanetia (1930) by David Cairns (HippFest 2015)
- Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) by David Cairns (HippFest 2018)
- Shiraz: A Romance of India (1928) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2018)
- Shooting Stars (1928) - by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2023)
- Sparrows (1926) by Cari Beauchamp (HippFest 2021)
- Stage Struck (1925) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2013)
- Stella Dallas (1925) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2016)
- String of Pearls (Yichuan Zhenzhu) (1926) by Julian Ward (HippFest 2022)
- Striving (Fen Dou) (1932) by Dr Julian Ward (HippFest 2018)
- Synthetic Sin (1929) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2015)
T-Z
- The Artist (2011) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2013)
- The Blot (1921) by Rosie Meachin and Shelley Stamp (HippFest 2019)
- The Blue Bird (1918) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2023)
- The Cat and the Canary (1927) by David Cairns (HippFest 2019)
- The Eagle (1925) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2021)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) by David Cairns (HippFest 2022)
- The Ghost Train (1927) by Laraine Porter (HippFest 2014)
- The Goddess (Shen nu) (1934) by Dr Xuelei Huang (HippFest 2017)
- The Goose Woman (1925) by Dr Kelly Robinson (HippFest 2013)
- The Grub Stake (1923) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2017)
- The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände) (1924) by Matthias Krop and Gudrun Weiss (HippFest 2017)
- The Informer (1929) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2017)
- The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Man) (1924) by Konrad Siller (HippFest 2014)
- The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923) by Donald Smith, Bob Geoghegan and Tony Fletcher (HippFest 2022)
- The Man Who Laughs (1928) by Fiona Watson (HippFest 2023)
- The Mark of Zorro (1920) by David Cairns (HippFest 2022)
- The Night Rider (1920) by Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak (HippFest 2022 - part of the Gender Rebels programme)
- The Oyster Princess (1919) by David Cairns (HippFest 2013)
- The Parson's Widow (1920) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2019)
- The Patsy (1928) by Kevin Brownlow (HippFest 2017)
- The Penalty (1920) by David Cairns (HippFest 2018) and touring
- The Perils of Pauline (1914) by William M. Drew (HippFest 2023)
- The Red Heroine (Hongxia) (1929) by Dr Xuelei Huang (HippFest 2019)
- The Silent Enemy (1930) by David Stirrup (HippFest 2023)
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) adapted from programme notes supplied by Photoplay Productions (HippFest 2018)
- The Unknown (1927) by David Cairns (HippFest 2022)
- The Woman Men Yearn For (1929) by Margaret Deriaz (HippFest 2021)
- The Wrecker (1929) by Neil Brand (HippFest 2016)
- Together (1956) by Bill Hare (HippFest 2017)
- Underground (1928) by Bryony Dixon (HippFest 2021 and 2018)
- Variety (1925) by David Cairns (HippFest 2016)
- Volcanic Passions (1932) - by Xuelei Huang (HippFest 2023)
- What Happened to Jones (1926) by Pamela Hutchinson (HippFest 2023)
- Wunder der Schöpfung – Wonder of Creation (1925) by Professor John C Brown (HippFest 2016)
